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Bar of the week: Out Of The Blue at The Berkeley

Every week, we scour the city to find the best bars our capital has to offer. Whether you're a cocktail kind of guy, or a man who enjoys a decent draft beer, there's a GQ-worthy drinking spot to suit every taste.

Valentine's Day ideas that are guaranteed to impress her

From gorgeous gifts to romantic getaways and the best places to take your beau out to celebrate, we've compiled the ultimate list of Valentine's Day ideas for her - as chosen by the women of GQ - to treat your better half with this 14 February

The presenter and judges weren’t allowed to use the word community while filming Village of the Year and for very good reason. Because when we asked a contributor what the best part of living in his or her village was in almost every case the first word that would leave their mouths was ‘community’.

Over several months, Penelope Keith, Alex Langlands, Juliet Sargeant and I have visited almost 80 villages across the UK to make the series (which starts today) for Channel 4. Many were pretty, many beautifully located, some historically important, others had unique local customs or industries. But without exception they all had a very strong sense of shared identity and purpose. They all had a clear and strong sense of community.

In London there’s always someone richer. What we should be asking ourselves is "Have I got enough? Am I content?

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Community is important to us. It is one of the foundations of our happiness. Breakdown of community is a contributor to the decline in physical and mental health and rising unhappiness across the UK. We build community around shared endeavour, from hunting and gathering, to farming and harvesting, to communities built around shared industry. Communal work forged communities, but in towns across the UK this work is disappearing, and in cities new modes of work frequently leave us with no sense of creating something of tangible value to those around us. Community in towns and cities is disappearing fast.

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In the show we get involved in all sorts of jolly stuff. I painted canal boats, picked cockles, shepherded, dug allotments, rang hand-bells among many other genuinely uplifting pursuits. But as judges we also wanted to make serious enquiries. What happened to these communities when things changed, when old ways of life or industries came under threat. How did they hang together, how do they fix and renew. The current vogue is for devolving power to ever more local government, but I have little faith in the government's ability to make positive change happen.

However filming Village of the Year has given me great faith in the ability of people and communities to take responsibility for their own futures. Neither hand-outs nor permissions sought, just positive change enacted. We saw post-industrial recoveries in Welsh mining villages and Cornwallian fishing ports, communities restored after years of division in Northern Ireland, old traditions updated to create future prosperity in northern Scotland. All self created.

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I live most of the time in London where everything we could possibly want is on our doorstep. Average wages are more than 50 per cent higher than the national average. But do Londoners feel rich? Wealth is highly subjective. In London there’s always someone richer. What we should be asking ourselves is "Have I got enough? Am I content?".

In the crofting community of Tarskavaig on the Isle of Skye no one is materially rich. There’s no pub, no shop, no mobile phone reception. But they have beauty every way they choose to look, they have peace, they have rewarding work, which often they share, and they have a community hall.

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The community cares for itself and its way of life collectively and they care for each other as individuals. The people that I met in Tarskavaig were all happy, because work, family and the community enrich them.

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Just as rich was an elderly Devonian lobster fisherman we met, who on his way back with his catch one day was reflecting that he would never be a multi-millionaire. "I suddenly looked at the cliffs, towards Branscombe and Sidmouth and Beer, and I thought meself, 'I am a millionaire, because I was born here'."

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